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THE UNTOLD SAGA OF BERTHA BENZ: KARL BENZ WIFE: INVENTOR OF MERCEDES BENZ Kindle Edition
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Karl Benz was an engine designer who dreamed of building something called a “horseless carriage”. This invention was far-fetched in the sense that people were afraid of the automobile. The church and other government officials tried to block Karl from producing the automobile because it was deemed unsafe for the roads, they thought the wheels might crush somebody.
When Karl was discouraged by people’s reactions, Bertha Benz decided to take the matter into her own hands. One morning she stole the automobile from the garage, took her oldest sons, Richard and Eugene on a trip 66 miles, 106 km miles away to go and visit her mother.
To date, no automobile has ever undertaken such a long distance. She was very creative in fueling the car which only took 12 miles per gallon of gasoline. At that time people used gasoline for cleaning, and it could only be purchased at a pharmacy.
She hired a shoe maker to make brake pads. When the automobile could not climb the hills, she used her sons and two farm boys to push it up the hills. By dusk she reached her mother’s house, sent a telegram to her husband that she made it home safe. Few days later, she drove the car back home and told her husband of her traveling experience.
This trip was highly publicized and it allowed Karl Benz to go back to the drawing board to correct what his wife had discovered. Because of Bertha Benz, people started buying automobiles.
- Reading age9 - 11 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 5
- Publication dateSeptember 29, 2016
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- ASIN : B01M1A6J2N
- Publisher : Amelia Gagu Harris Publishers (September 29, 2016)
- Publication date : September 29, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 7674 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 26 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,982,336 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #817 in Education Problem Solving
- #43,566 in Education Theory (Books)
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About the author
I was born, raised and educated in South Africa, I am from the Zulu tribe, Shaka Zulu tribe. My mom and dad sent me to parochial schools for my middle and high school education in private boarding schools.
I have been awarded a utility patent on my invention of a Babycarrier Washable Backpack.
Patent No.: US 9750,352 B2
Date of Patent
Sep. 5, 2017
I came to America to attend graduate school for my Masters degree in School Counseling. I am a certified High School teacher in South Africa, I have a school counseling certification with the State of Georgia (S-6). I have a specialist degree, Ed.S in school counseling.
The reason why I started writing children's books is that when my children were young, I did not want them reading any garbage, therefore I used to sit down and choose what they are going to read. I saw all these books published with no didactic connotation, it set me on a quest to do something about it.
One day I observed ants in my office going back and forth touching each other as they were passing by. That sparked an interest in me, I told my friend that there is some kind of communication going on and I want to find out what is going on. I told one of my children to go to the library and check out all the books about ants.
When I read them, I became very interested in ants, I asked God to give me a book about ants that will tie with my job as a school counselor. He is faithful, about six months later, I received my book and it is called "Ants At Work: A Child's Introduction To Careers."
I self published it with Outskirts Press, it was important for me to preserve my rights because it is copyrighted. I did my own illustrations.
I have since written a lot of books. I was very excited to learn about Amazon. I have been working on it and it is a blessing to do this all by myself without going through the publisher and to pay all that money to publish.
Amazon allowed me to be my own boss and to make my own illustrations. This is a blessing and I am so thrilled by it.
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